Serbian Studies

Serbian Studies - Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies

The History of Serbia
by John K. Cox

ISBN: 0313312907

Publication Date: 2002-05-30

With the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia in 1991, interest in Balkan history has increased and become emotionally charged. This balanced and engagingly written history of Serbia will help readers to understand the complex web of Serbian history, politics, society, and culture and how the Serbs have dealt with the many political, military, and socioeconomic challenges in their history.

Art of Kosovo
by Gojko Subotoc

ISBN: 9781580930062

Publication Date: 1998-11-01

The Balkan Region of Kosovo, near Albania, was in the Middle Ages a center of exceptional artistic activity. Closely bound to the sea and to European trading routes, this territory was deeply influenced by Byzantine lands to the east, resulting in a rich fusion of Eastern and Western styles. Today more than 1,300 of these medieval monuments remain; this volume represents the first time they are published for a Western audience.

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Serbian Studies

Voices in the Shadows
by Celia Hawkesworth

ISBN: 9639116629

Publication Date: 2000-01-01

Women are conspicuously absent from traditional cultural histories of South-East Europe. This book addresses that imbalance by describing the contribution of women to literary culture in the Orthodox/Ottoman areas of Serbia and Bosnia.

Serbian
by Lila Hammond

ISBN: 0415286409

Publication Date: 2005-07-19

Serbian: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of Serbian as used by contemporary native speakers of the language. Features of this Grammar include: - use of Cyrillic and transliterations throughout - section on the culture and dialects of Serbian - appendices on the Cyrillic script, the formation of the genitive and noun declensions - detailed contents list and index for easy reference.

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Serbian Language Reform

Reforms, writing of the first dictionary of the Serbian language, collecting folk literature, conflicts with the most prominent Serbian figures and keeping company with European elite, family tragedy and the introduction of phonetic orthography into the Serbian language, is the life and work of the most important figure of the Serbian literature in the first half of the 19th century – Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

ABSEES covers North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and includes citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, selected government documents.

UNESCO's World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
1. Promote international and intercultural understanding;
2. Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
3. Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
4. Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries

Provides access to citation indexes which can be searched individually or as one file.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Science Citation Index Expanded indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines and contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70 percent of the articles in the database.

The Social Sciences Citation Index indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

Book Citation Indexes- Science and Social Sciences & Humanties indexes over 30,000 editorially selected books in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, with 10,000 new books added each year. It contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60 per cent of the articles in the database.

The Films on Demand collections provide streaming video access to more than 8,000 videos and 90,000 segments for topics including Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics and Health & Medicine.

FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, and economics. FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature.

The Matica Srpska Library is the oldest Serbian national library and the first public and scientific library of Serbs. It was founded in 1826, in Pest, together with the foundation of the Matica Srpska Literary Society. It was only natural for the books to find their place in such a literary society.

The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the highest scientific and art institution in the Republic of Serbia. It develops and encourages science, organizes and promotes basic and applied scientific research, encourages and promotes artistic activity. The Academy is an institution of national significance

During the two centuries of its existence the University of Belgrade has served its people, and its former students and teachers have greatly contributed to the development of cultural, scientific, educational, political and economic life of Serbia

The Digital National Library of Serbia provides access to a large number of materials digitized for the National Library's collections. Formats include old and rare books, manuscripts, periodicals, maps and atlases, art materials, photographs, posters and other miscellany. A search engine is available to search across the various format types. The site is in Serbian and English, although the documents themselves are primarily in Serbian

Rastko Project, an eclectic mix of links to resources and electronic texts on Serbia, Serbian Culture, Politics, Religion, etc. Site is in Serbian, mostly in the Latin alphabet, but many texts hyperlinked on the site are in English or other European languages. The "Library of Serbian Culture" is divided into various, eclectic, divisions: by personality, subject, timeperiod, etc

Homepage of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Makes available information on the Serbian Orthodox Church, its history, current news, etc. Information is also available on Serbian Orthodox historical sites that are in jeopardy, or which have been destroyed or violated. Serbian and English versions

FEEFHS was founded in 1992 as the Federation of East European Family History Societies to promote family research in eastern and central Europe. It provides a forum for individuals and organizations focused on a single country or group of people to exchange information and be updated on developments in the field

"East European Constitutional Review," a quarterly published by NYU Law School and Central European University, is available in searchable form. It covers legal, constitutional, and political issues in Central and Eastern Europe

Music of the Balkans is an unique place gathering the best music releases from the countries on the Balkan peninsula. The site features the latest news, videos and live performances, promising a large diversity of music genres and trying to satisfy the tastes of different audiences of all ages

The strategically convenient location of the ridge at the confluence of the Sava and the Danube, which dominates the surroundings and enables control over the plain from its north and west side, had been inhabited since prehistoric times. Based on the archaeological findings at the Upper Town’s plateau of the Belgrade Fortress, the first settlement originates during the Neolithic period

Vinča is one of the major and the largest prehistoric archaeological sites in Europe that was the heart of the first urban European civilization. Vinča archaeological site is situated on the right side of the Danube River bank, 11 km east of Belgrade where the early 20 th-century excavations uncovered the remains of the eight Neolithic villages. The Vinca archaeological site features an excellent overview of the Danube River which has been an artery of communication ever since

The National Museum is the most significant, the oldest and central Serbian museum. After over a hundred and sixty years of growth and development, from collecting rarities to comprehensive presentation of cultural heritage of Serbia and Europe, it has 34 archeological, numismatic, artistic and historical collections today

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Factiva provides global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires and The Wall Street Journal - unduplicated in a single service elsewhere. It is the only single content solution with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources.

The purpose of this document collection is to establish from the historical record the diplomatic and cartographic background to the Balkan zone of territorial and ethnic conflict. Text and maps support each other closely.

A profound collection of Aleksandar Zograf's comics and correspondences during the war in Serbia. This book captures the essence of life during wartime, seen from the apartment window of one who was there at ground zero. The moral ambiguities of war, the horrific reality, the humanity. This volume includes Zograf's entire e-mail correspondence to his friends throughout the world during the bombing of his hometown of Pancevo, as well as all of his comic strips produced over the decade Bosnian/Serbian war. For those who appreciated Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde and Palestine, you will not want to miss this very important book.